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The Germanic god (or sometimes goddess -- the figure seems to waver back and forth between the two) delivering gifts in mid-winter is discussed in Jacob Grimm\'s \'\'Deutsche Mythologie\'\'. Strictly speaking, he was not himself a winter god, but the spring god manifesting himself around the solstice, as a sign that spring was returning. His usual name was something like Bercht or Precht or Berchtha (all meaning, \
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The Germanic god (or sometimes goddess -- the figure seems to waver back and forth between the two) delivering gifts in mid-winter is discussed in Jacob Grimm\\\'s \\\'\\\'Deutsche Mythologie\\\'\\\'. Strictly speaking, he was not himself a winter god, but the spring god manifesting himself around the solstice, as a sign that spring was returning. His usual name was something like Bercht or Precht or Berchtha or Berchthold (all meaning, \\\"the Bright One\\\"), sometimes taken as the equivalent of the god Freyr/Fro/Ing. When the role of the shining god was taken over by St. Nicholas, Precht got down-graded to the saint\\\'s dark companion who inflicted punishments on naughty children, Rupprecht or the Krampus. The conception of the shining goddess was sometimes bundled together with the idea of the Christ Child delivering gifts, so that in some communities Kristkindl (Kris Kringle?) came in the form of a young woman wearing a white wedding dress.
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The Germanic god (or sometimes goddess -- the figure seems to waver back and forth between the two) delivering gifts in mid-winter is discussed in Jacob Grimm\'s \'\'Deutsche Mythology\'\'. Strictly speaking, he was not himself a winter god, but the spring god manifesting himself around the solstice, as a sign that spring was returning. His usual name was something like Bercht or Precht or Berchtha (all meaning, \
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The Germanic god (or sometimes goddess -- the figure seems to waver back and forth between the two) delivering gifts in mid-winter is discussed in Jacob Grimm\\\'s \\\'\\\'Deutsche Mythologie\\\'\\\'. Strictly speaking, he was not himself a winter god, but the spring god manifesting himself around the solstice, as a sign that spring was returning. His usual name was something like Bercht or Precht or Berchtha (all meaning, \\\"the Bright One\\\"). When the role of the shining god was taken over by St. Nicholas, Precht got down-graded to the saint\\\'s dark companion who inflicted punishments on naughty children, Rupprecht or the Krampus. The conception of the shining goddess was sometimes bundled together with the idea of the Christ Child delivering gifts, so that in some communities Kristkindl (Kris Kringle?) came in the form of a young woman wearing a white wedding dress.
